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Ji An's words instantly ignited the bear cub's fighting spirit.

"Roar!" Come on! Come on!

"Bang!" One whip.

"Roar!" Use more strength!

"Bang, bang!"

"Bang, bang, bang!"

This morning's training ended with a few hits from the stick.

The layer of ice formed on every part of the winter bear cub's body could, on average, withstand seven or eight of Ji An's strikes.

Moreover, they were all full-force blows from Ji An, who twisted his waist and delivered a death blow.

During this time, the layer of ice covering the winter bear cub's body was shattered by Ji An's stick many times, but it would reform again.

Even a few of the wooden poles from the construction site, which were not of good quality, had been broken.

The winter bear cub could take the beating, but Ji An was completely exhausted, and the web between his thumb and forefinger was bleeding.

After all, a human's physical fitness could not compare to a familiar's.

Fortunately, Ji An's "sacrifice" was not in vain.

The effects of the "stick" training method were astonishing.

Before the training, the skill mastery value of Hard Ice had just been 35.

Now, it had improved by leaps and bounds, increasing by 10 points, reaching a mastery value of 45.

From the beginning to the end, the training only lasted less than an hour and a half.

The gratifying results of the training also made Ji An even more determined to continue training the winter bear cub this way.

After all, with the winter bear cub's recovery ability, it would recover after a night's rest after being hit so many times.

It wouldn't be a problem for it to continue getting beaten up tomorrow.

After sending the winter bear cub back to the soul domain, Ji An painfully took out a few hundred yuan from his wallet and hurriedly left the house.

To achieve the expected training results on the second day, the wound on his hand needed to be treated to speed up his recovery.

Otherwise, he would not be able to exert himself the next day.

In addition, he was planning on buying a pair of suitable labor protection gloves to protect his hands to a certain extent when he used the stick to hit the bear cub tomorrow.

The new era had come due to the emergence of Transcendence powers.

Many medicines with amazing medicinal effects also appeared.

Ji An bought an ointment for bruises from the pharmacy, which cost him 500 yuan, making his heart ache.

Corresponding to the price was the immediate effect of the ointment.

As soon as he applied it, the bleeding stopped and a scab formed in no time.

On the fifth day, after waking up, Ji An looked at the wound between his thumb and forefinger, which no longer affected his movements.

He put on the labor protection gloves and began the bear cub's fifth day of training.

The fifth day of training was still very effective.

Hard Ice's mastery value had increased from 45 to 64.

The increase in mastery value was slightly lower than the previous day, but Ji An was mentally prepared.

After a skill's mastery value reached a certain level, it would become more and more difficult to level up.

For it to have been improved by a similar value as the day before was already not bad.

There was something else that surprised Ji An during the day's training.

At the end of the winter bear's Hard Ice training, he began to let the winter bear cub try to catch the wooden stick with its claws.

He had originally wanted to test how much the destructive power of the bear cub's claws would have under the effect of Hard Ice.

He didn't expect that after the winter bear cub's paws, which were covered in Hard Ice, managed to take a few hits from Ji An's wooden stick, a faint icy blue light appeared on its paw. The icy blue light flashed only to increase the power of the winter bear cub's paw.

Following this, the wooden stick in Ji An's hand was sent flying in an instant, and wood chips flew out in mid-air from the broken part of the wooden stick.

"What was that just now?" Ji An ignored the pain in his hand and looked at the winter bear cub's paws, where the light had already disappeared. He had a vague guess in his heart.

When he used the Eye of Insight to look at the bear cub again, he saw that there was indeed an additional skill in the bear cub's list of skills.

[Ice-breaking Palm (5/720)]

"Wow!" A hint of a smile appeared on Ji An's face.

To think using Hard Ice to catch the wooden stick allowed the winter bear cub to learn from analogy and master the last racial skill of the winter bear race, the Ice-breaking Palm.

Ice-breaking Palm was one of the three racial skills of the winter bear race, and it was mainly an offensive skill.

Ji An couldn't be bothered to rest. He applied some medicine to the chapped area between his thumb and index finger again, then immediately began to train the winter bear cub's Ice-breaking Palm.

Hard Ice was a thin layer of white, translucent ice that condensed on the surface of the winter bear cub's body to increase its resistance to attacks.

As for Ice-breaking Palm, it allowed the winter bear cub to gather ice-type destructive power in its palm when it attacked, greatly increasing the destructive power.

Both were elementary skills. However, the difficulty of getting started with the Ice-breaking Palm was slightly higher than with Hard Ice.

For this skill, The winter bear cub had just stepped into the Beginner realm, so it still couldn't successfully release the Ice-breaking Palm every time.

After many attempts, it finally succeeded again.

It repeated the same practice for more than an hour.

With that, the winter bear cub's Ice-breaking Palm had improved by 5 points, reaching a mastery value of 10, which also increased the success rate of the winter bear cub's Ice-breaking Palm.

The fifth day of training ended. Of the seven days of special training that Ji An had planned, there were only two days left.

Two days later, Ji An was going to bring the winter bear cub to the Beastmaster Association to return the books, and see if there were any ways for novice beastmasters to earn money.

The winter bear cub's training never stopped.

Seven days of special training passed by in a flash.

On the seventh day, it was still a sunny day with no clouds in sight.

After Earth had been restarted in the new era, the natural environment was many times better than in the old era.

The sky was clear, and it was hard to see any air pollution.

Close to noon when the sun was high in the sky, a bear cub that was already 60 to 70 centimeters tall was hitting a wooden stake on Ji An's rooftop.

This wooden stake was handmade by Ji An using discarded wood and nails that he had picked up yesterday.

The base was a large stone that weighed a few hundred kilograms.

Its purpose was to let the winter bear cub practice the Ice-breaking Palm.

Originally, two days ago, he was the winter bear cub's sparring partner for the Ice-breaking Palm's training.

But yesterday, he felt that he couldn't hold on any longer.

The winter bear cub's energy level had increased by a large margin compared to when he had just subdued it.

The power of each palm strike was extremely shocking.

Even though Ji An was wearing labor protection gloves and holding a wooden stick, he still couldn't avoid getting injured.

Helplessly, he could only change the bear cub's sparring partner to a wooden stake that was less effective.

The winter bear cub was still very excited when it hit the wooden stake though.

Not long after, the wooden stake, which weighed a few hundred kilograms, had been hit by the winter bear cub until it was on the verge of collapse and full of palm prints.

The palm prints on the wooden stake were still emitting a threatening cold air.

If the palm strikes hit a human, the other party would either die or be injured.

The winter bear cub was still small, but its strength was already vastly different from seven days ago.

Now, the winter bear cub's stats were such:

[Race]: Winter Bear

[Race Level]: Lower Extraordinary

[Evolution Level]: Second Morphing

[Energy Level]: 31.5

[Acquired Skills]: Hibernation (261/800), Hard Ice (103/785), Ice-breaking Palm (55/720)

[Potential Skills]: Cold Air (0/682), Monstrous Strength (0/695), Avalanche Impact (0/553)

On top of that, the winter bear cub had also grown from about half a meter to 60 to 70 centimeters, and its evolution level had naturally increased by one level.

As for its energy level, it had already reached the level of many familiars that had gone through their fourth Morphing.

Hard Ice's skill mastery value of 103 also marked that it had been upgraded from the Beginner realm to the Entry realm.

Many Transcendent creatures who had gone through their fourth or even fifth Morphing would find it difficult to upgrade a certain skill to the Entry realm.

This was usually achievable in the middle to late stage of the Morphing realm. In other words, only a familiar that had gone through their sixth or seventh Morphing would be able to get skills to the Entry realm.

As for mastering skills in the Proficient realm, in most cases, that was the exclusive right of Transcendent creatures who already had Transcendent bodies.

It was rare for a creature like the winter bear cub, who was still at the Morphing level, to manage to train a skill to the Entry realm.

As the winter bear cub's strength increased, the power feedback it gave to Ji An helped him increase his soul power by quite a bit.

Entry-level beastmasters were similarly divided into different ranks.

From rank one to rank ten, it corresponded to the strength of the familiar from its first to tenth Morphing.

Ji An's current soul force was so strong that it was comparable to some rank three Entry-level beastmasters.

Whether it was Ji An or the winter bear cub, both of them could be considered to have some strength now.

At the very least, they had already surpassed the combat power of ordinary people.

"Winter bear cub, your special training has ended. It's time to go out," Looking at the time, it was about time to return the book. Ji An decided to make a trip to the Beastmaster Association right now.

Of course, his objective this time wasn't just to return the book.

By seven days, including the first day of taming the bear cub, the jars of sweetgrass milk had already been consumed by nearly half.

His financial crisis had only gotten worse with the seven days of spending.

"This time, We have to try to find a way to solve the food problem of the winter bear cub!"